Harvey Silverglate

It would be demeaning no matter what.

And the students actually

verbalized how their race had either been a plus or a minus.

They did.

They did.

And I thought it was so demeaning, it just confirmed all of my distaste for this kind of...

Well, we want to face the world with reality.

And the reality is that there are some unpleasantnesses in the world, running from genocide right through to ordinary discrimination, to offensiveness.

It's the real world as we know it exists.

Are we afraid to say it?

Do we want to make people think that we live in a world where those words are not used, where those animosities don't exist?

The answer is no.

Well, see, I don't see it as normalizing.

I see it as exposing it.

If more people had taken Montcalm seriously, Franklin Roosevelt would have acted much sooner.

He only got us into the war, asked Congress to get us into the war, when the Japanese made the mistake of attacking Pearl Harbor.

But there were some people in the State Department, there were some people in the administration who were trying to

trying to get Roosevelt to see what Hitler was really like, and he was blind to it.

This was one of the greatest presidents the United States ever had.

He was blind to it until the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.